A Jewish rival for the leader of the mayor Andrew Cuomo started the former governor on Sunday, saying that “song” about a group he built to combat the anti -Semitism that has been largely in action.
The candidate Scott Stringer said a duration of a speech in the institutional synagogue of the West Side that the defense group “Never again, now!” He was supposed to fight against Jewish hatred, but instead he became a vehicle to support Cuomo’s return campaign.
“He performed in the people’s rooms and promised to establish an organization that would direct commercials, organize symposia and, with money raised from the Jewish donors community, would join the fight against anti -Semitism,” the first. SAYING.
“But he never raised a finger. There were no commercial. Nothing,” Stringer added. “This organization was a vehicle for its mayor’s career, and everyone knows.”
Cuomo had previously spoken in the same synagogue, accusing other candidates in a primary crowded of the Democratic Party of Condonation of Jewish hatred or being anti -Semitic.
“I knew not to call me. That would have a fog a leg,” Stringer told Congregants previously in his speech. “But still, I was horrified by their cynical, and frankly unfortunate attempts, to divide the city and this community.
Stringer said that the worst was what Cuomo did not say as a result of the terrorist attacks of October 7 of Hamas in Israel.
“Hey, do not tell you that he arrived in this community at our darkest moment, duration of our need, after more than 1,200 people were killed by the terrorist organization Hamas, with hundreds of hostages in Gaza, and he songs,” Stringer. “
“This was the sausage of the Jewish people like the Holocaust. Our hearts were broken,” he said. “And he sold us a whole -time goods bill, duration of our need … He believes he is receiving one with us. But we know better.”
Stringer then cited a passage in the Talmud to warn the congregants about Cuomo.
“Be careful with the government, since they approach a man alone when they need it. They look like good friends in the good times, but they do not stay for him in time of his problems,” he said.
“Never Again, Now” from Cuomo prepared a video ad that attacked Hamas in July 2024, as reported in the post.
But the announcement got little air, the New York Times reported.
Cuomo has had a massive advantage in surveys such as the June 24 Democratic primary for the mayor, which has contributed to him being a favorite objective of other candidates. Stringer has been surveying in individual digits.
Cuomo has faced attacks in his mayor’s career after he resigned as governor under the threat of accusation in 2021 amid a series of accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior that he denies.
It has also been fiercely criticized for its management of COVID-19 pandemic, particularly a controversial directive of the March 2020 administration that ordered the elderly homes to accept patients in recovery of crown-discouraged coronavirus of hospitals.
Responding to Stringer, the Cuomo campaign proved a statement by state assemblyman Sam Berger, a cuomo sponsor in the Jewish community.
“Governor Cuomo has shown support to the Jewish community with action, not just words. Scott Stringer played on foot with the DSA Anti-Israel and Antidemocratic [Democratic Socialists of America] And his allies who won hate, “Berger said.
“When Queens faced an election for a Jewish candidate Pro-Israel [Melinda Katz] And a DSA member who carries the card [Tiffany Caban]Stringer chose DSA. We need a mayor who fights for us, not one who simply leaves when it is convenient. “
Cuomo, meanwhile, defended his decisions Duration of the pandemic while talking at the Missionary Baptist Church of Salem in Brooklyn on Sunday morning.
“We hit Covid and save lives,” he told the church congregants.